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| GeneralFile Transfer Horror Stories
Some of the horrors companies experience when trying to move large video files during production and distribution might be scarier than Pennywise. From Frankenstein FTPs to Bandwidth Boogeymen, scroll through the many villains lurking in the dark corners of media file transfers. -
| GeneralApp-less Transfers: A new option in Media Shuttle for supporting our customers’ entire ecosystems
In some highly regulated industries, companies are often operating under locked down corporate IT environments. Signiant’s new app-less transfer option for Media Shuttle allows them to extend the solution’s adoption across their entire media ecosystems when installing software is not an option. System administrators can maintain full control and visibility of every transfer, while all end users enjoy a simple, uniform experience. -
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Media Shuttle’s Storage Independence – Customers Embrace the Choices
When talking about the cloud it is always easy to confuse hype with reality. Cloud-adoption within the M&E industry remains uneven, particularly when it comes to content storage and processing. That’s why Media Shuttle allows customers to have either cloud storage, on-premises storage, or a mix of both. -
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October 1st, 2017 – a Landmark Day in the Migration to File-based Delivery in the UK
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP), an industry organization comprising UK broadcasters BBC, BT Sport, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, Sky and UKTV, recently announced that as of October 1st its members will no longer accept delivery of programs on videotape. This is a real watershed moment in the transition from videotape to files as the primary medium for moving video content across the M&E supply chain. -
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Streaming to the Cloud with Flight, One of Many New Flight Capabilities
Signiant CTO Ian Hamilton recently wrote an article about the challenges of economically getting high-quality contribution video feeds from remote events back to a permanent facility for, in this case, live processing and delivery to a CDN for live streaming to consumers. This requires a tool – such as Signiant Flight, capable of overcoming the issues of latency and packet loss. Here’s an update on some of Flight’s new features and benefits and a look at some of its use cases. -
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IBC Innovation Awards: Some Congratulations Are in Order
Another year, another successful IBC in the books! As usual, it was an event filled with industry innovations and newly emerging technologies being showcased across the RAI’s 15 halls. Sunday was one of the show’s biggest nights as hundreds gathered for the IBC Innovation Awards Ceremony. Split into three categories, the award winners are recognized for the “best applications of technology to achieve a real goal for the broadcaster or media company”. -
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Imagine downloading half a million one hour shows, in HD, from Netflix
Media Shuttle continues to evolve as we provide new features and capabilities, and one constant has always been our laser focus on ease of use, and support for ever more efficient workflows. But what it really all boils down to is how well the solution works for the users who actually send, receive and share files through the Media Shuttle portals. From this perspective, the breadth and depth of adoption and usage, and the rate at which these continue to grow, has been staggering. Check out some numbers from our current customers that speak louder than words. -
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Beyond Entertainment: Enterprise Big Data Modeling with Virtual Reality
The business applications of Virtual Reality deserve a lot more attention, especially from large corporations with Big Data initiatives. -
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Upgrades? Who doesn’t hate manual upgrades?
Enterprise software upgrades – three words that strike fear into the heart of any sysadmin running complex applications, or applications that have not been upgraded in a while. I was recently involved in upgrading an issue tracking application that had not been kept up to date (its last upgrade was 2013), and it really helped reinforce for me one of the key benefits of SaaS: “managed upgrades”. -
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New Content Protection Option for Sending Files with Media Shuttle
With the latest high-profile cyberattack within Media & Entertainment, this one on HBO, occurring just months after the much-reported hack of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, cybersecurity and the importance of safeguarding valuable media content is once again on everyone’s mind.
